Re: [trivial PATCH] arch/x86: Remove unnecessary returns from voidfunction()'s

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue May 11 2010 - 21:01:48 EST


On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 17:41 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 05:39 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > This patch removes from arch/x86/ all the unnecessary
> > return; statements that precede the last closing brace of
> > void functions.
> And the point of this is?
> I fail to see how this improves the clarity of the code one iota, and
> isn't anything but just churn.

Just naked consistency.

Most all kernel void functions don't use return before
the closing brace.

The good thing about code removal is it doesn't make
any impact on git blame.

Ignore it or not. No worries to me.

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